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- ! It's time to build the arc By AARON SHEININ Waterlogged editor All right everyone, the aik is almost finished. All aboard who's going aboard. Is this rain out-of-hand, or what? Seeing cars float by unmanned, or unwomanned for all you feminists, is not a comforting sight. I half expected to see the Coast Guard patrolling Five Points Saturday night during The Great Hood. The water was knee deep! The only people getting through were those in fourwheel drives or the big tanks. Everyone else got stuck and practically became submerged. Isn't it great to be living ] through such exciting < times!. . . Holy bulging body parts, Batman! Michelle Pfeiffer j has been named Catwoman to replace the pregnant Annette j Benning in Batman 2. Sean , Young is suing the production , company claiming she was j promised the part after she showed up in five-inch heels, black tights, a tube-top and a Batman hat on. I'd promise her , anything to get her out of my office, too.. . I started to tell j you about this a few weeks ago, , but left you hanging. So, if you haven't already heard, the radio station 96.7 FM, otherwise j known as Yes 97, is switching , to a country format as of tomor- , row. That's right, no more New Kids and garbage like that . \ From now on, you will here the j twangy sound of Garth Brooks, < Clint Black and Randy Travis. , Some may wonder why such a ] drastic change, but WCOS, 97.5 ( FM, the other country station in . Columbia, has been the , number-one rated station for weeks on end. Country is the , fastest growing radio me- ] dium... What do Saddam Hussein and little Miss Muffet have in common? They both have Khurds in their way. . . .Terminator 2: Judgement Day remained number one at the movies this past weekend, raking in $11.1 million for a total of $133.6 million since opening. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey was second, followed by 101 Dalmations and Boyz N the Hood. Kathleen Turner's new movie, V.I. Warshawski grossed $3.6 million, and Mel Brooks' Life Stinks made $1.9 million. . . The words for the day are indecent exposure. Peewee Herman got caught playing with his wee-wee at an adult theatre in Sarasota, Fla. Paul Reubens, who plays the hyper Herman denies that he ever exposed himself or engaged in any other improper activities. He does admit to being at the theatre, however. . . Tickets are on sale now for Van Halen with Alice in Chains Aug. 16 at the Coca-Cola Lakewood Ampitheatre in Atlanta. To see these guys in such a small venue as Lakewood, not to mention outside, is an opportunity anyone who ever heard one of their songs and liked it even a little should not pass up. Lakewood is one of the best fain fh/? j ; _ Llliucs "? ",v "uuuicasi anu is easy to find, just off 1-75 on Lakewood Boulevard, just south of the city. I'll be there this weekend with fellow parrotheads to see Jimmy Buffett on Saturday, a summer-time tradition. i Go out with each other, name, addrt JL I others. On a first public place. Safety y0U pian to t that others kr METW Tired pl< By DAVID BOWDEN Editor in Chief Some wit gave the new movie title: Young Tommy guns. I agree wit stars a bunch of cute young hunks 1 ter and Richard Grieco. It is a rehas ties gangster film ever made, but it's The movie's biggest weakness is editing. The film cuts from one see rapidly and makes the plot muddled addition, first-time director Mich selects some really bad camera angl hardly see the actors that are doing belniicoff tries to be a little too arty times. This is just a gangster movie, Despite these flaws, there are sc commend this film. Christian Slatei mpsey turn in very convincing pc other two guys, Grieco and new-corn If anyone 'Robin Ho By BRIAN MCCARTER Staff Writer It might be strange to bother this late with a review of Robin Hood, is anyone who cares at all about it has probably seen it. Still, that which is strange is not necessarily useless, and in the case of this film, I am moved to write to advance a principle: the quality of a work of art is diminished in exact proportion to its tendency towards the teaching of moral ideas. Robin Hood is not a bad movie, in spite of its vicious reviews. It is merely a severly compromised ?ood one. Compromised by what? Well, Kevin Costner's occasionally iimp acting, for one thing, though this is not as bad as it's been reported. The contrast between his altogether undisguised American ^Midwestern?) accent and his pompous lines, for example, produces an engaging goofiness that may actually enhance the film. The real problem with the movie lies ;lsewhere, mostly in the dialogue and in artistically questionable tamperings with the legend. What is director Kevin Reyiolds' motive for having Robin flood be a part of the crusades? Local mu; By KIPP SHIVES Music Guru The evil cloud of censorship has artist with the trend of moralism through the music industry. Blightobody fans beware. The n Pressure Vessel was sent back from plant it was sent to. Why? Because claimed the lyrics are obscene. I, for one, would never equate the body with rappers 2 Live Crew, Never fear, the band says the tape another plant and will be available ir Frank Zappa would be proud. Despite this disheartening bit of fantastic shows are sweeping througl No matter what kind of music you something for you. Tomorrow night at Rockafella's from Atlanta will perform with D< Deacon Lunchbox. The Jody Grind, with one album 1 be an acoustic bass-crossover treat f< They blend a soft rockabilly sour smooth rock and roll. Vocalist Kellj ily give the Indigo Girls a run for her dynamic voice. Desolate James is a rock band fn and for the more poetic crowd, si Deacon Lunchbox will start it off style brand of performance art. Columbia pop-lords Hootie and t return to Greenstreets two night weekend. Stop by and see them Frid hnfh if vaii *r?tr> rr/wl oritjill/ll ITI11 M.M. jv/u aiv xiiivs 5VAW ? """ just want to hang out and shoot the p Antiseen, who played backup on xnt seven-inch Carolina Up My A friends and keep track of Don't broadcast your 3ss or plans in front of date, plan to meet in a Let people know where >e and let your date know low. Stick to your plans. ^ Telephone [AB If 252-8393 HUH 24 Hours ot makes lor, have little to dc Dempsey really Mobsters another ^'m as a act h that. The movie Meyer Lansky in a ike Christian Sla- fashion. At the otl h of every Twen- over *?p as an not that bad. was Srating and do the direction and ^ng senile, ne to another too There are several and confusing. In does move along a ael Karbelnikoff movie bored me. es where you can done so many tii the talking. Kar- screenplay and dir and surrealistic at dred genre, and thi for Pete's sake. lacks most. >me things to re- If one wants to and Patrick De- plot, see the great < irformances. The one wants to see er Costas Mandy- Mobsters. Grade: ( really still < iod' is not t Could it be so that he might have the character say that his father "called the crusades a foolish quest," and that "it was vanity to force other men to our religion"? It does not matter whether the crusades really were vain. The question is, why must this be pointed out in the movie? And what is his reason for including Morgan Freeman as a Muslim Moor? No such character exists in the legend, and yet Freeman's is made to be the most noble, disciplined, austere religiously faithful character in the film. His Azeem is set alongside a most appallingly gluttonous and festive Friar Tuck, whose every utterence amounts to a revolting mockery of Christianity ("the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away," he says sadly when the woodsmen co-opt his booze). Indeed, though Freeman's acting is as usual, impressive, an honest mind cannot ignore the extra-dramatic purpose of his character. What devout Mu sum would say to a man promoting the amorous uses of mistletoe, "in my country, we talk to our women, we do not drug them with them with plants"? Really, why sicians cen Columbia Sunday show. i struck many an , S is 3 which has swept ^kc secin? ^ Weaver saw these ew tape Modern N.C, the lead stag the first pressing with a bottle dunnf the plant owneis a stretcher foUowin Opening for An core outfit music of Blighto- Monday, Kindrei but anyhow . . . special 8 p.m. sho> has been sent to and Bad Brains-s i two weeks. powered sound. Kindred Soul co info, some rather and also has a pletl fi town this week. Tuesday, Aug. i are into, there is acts at 8 p.m. to be Zero Hour, high kick in some head , the Jody Grind to isolate James and ? Following, Spig umbia will take th inder its belt, will to many bands incl >r the capitol city, and the Clash, id into enjoyable ^ . r Murray can eas- Douglas Chay is their money with m,usic scene- He " The Dishwasher ai available at Tracks om Augusta, Ga., _ , . loken-word artist J*** a with his absurd- other instruments. I cover charge alone. he Blowfish will Bootleg, a local i s in a row this j^e headliner, 4 ay or Saturday or their orignial rock t sic to dance to or roverbial breeze. The cover is onl Gigi Allen's re- come out and supp ss, will return to ternative radio. CGOT UN DNNfl PUT UN THECUM V - ^ -W" h \a"f' s f , ' Mobst( ) and mainly smirk and look tough, surprised me. I never thought of or before, but he played gangster n appropriately low-key, intelligent ler extreme, Anthony Quinn goes old crime boss. His performance wnright weird. Quinn must be getl good action scenes and the movie it a quick pace, so I can't say the However, this material has been mes, it would take a dynamite ector to put a new angle on this ose are the two elements this film see a recent gangster film with a ind underseen Miller's Crossing. If a thoroughly average movie, see "<1 :ares, oo bad hint at a fictitious gender equality in Muslim countries? And why make the Christians look so bad? Other political slaps in the face abound. Duncan, his eyes gouged out, conveniently calls the Moors savages in the presence of Azeem, whose race, of course, is unknown to the blind man. Maid Marion, while behooded, fights Robin Hood with the strength of a man. Friar Tuck, after living with Azeem for days and surely seeing what he can do, spouts angrily that if the Moor tries to deliver Little John's child, he will kill it, for "he is a savage." The child, of course, is delivered without incident, and Tuck at last is reformed. All this distracts one's attention from the good stuff in the movie: the English landscapes, the enormous castles, the lighting, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, a truly beautiful cataract in the eye of a witch and the wonderful performance of Alan Rickman as die evil Sheriff of Nottingham, to name a few things. These things make the movie worth seeing, if you can stomach these lapses into social sensitivity instruction. I, unfortunately, cannot sored for a Rockafella's 6 p.m. all-ages for drama majors and people who fly. Last time my friend Jennifer guys in their home city Charlotte, er Jeff Clayton split his head open r the first set and was carried off on g the fourth song. tiseen is Final Fate, a local hardi Soul will play by themselves at a v. Kindred Soul mixes funk, reggae tyle thrash into their own highvers Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, lora of groovy originals to boot ), Rockafella's will host five local nefit WUSC's local music show, school metalheads from Irmo, will s and provide some tunes to mosh ot a little-known band from Col~ o . 1 I ^1 c auigc. opigui lias uccii wjuipaiw luding Sonic Youth, the Sugarcubes ; fairly well-known in the Columbia scently released a new tape entitled id The Washing Machine, which is :oustic guitar in addition to many le is a one-man act well worth the netal team will perform next 9 Reasons, will then plug in with unes. y $4, so there is no reason not to ort five original local acts and alWNCiMENT?) IDD IN IECOCK! irs' averag< ^ ^ <o ^ mm (from left) Richard Grieco, Costas Mandyl Patrick Dempsey star in Mobsters. Editor prei 1 11 oest aioum By DAVID BOWDEN touch I Editor in Chief on this. Of rock music's many forms, heavy metal (hard rock, what- |?io ever) is still my favorite. I do Sabbat mean real metal, not the crap in togethe an MTV Hard Block. However, tent I don't want to argue about se- R mantics: I consider such diverse Straigl bands as Guns N' Roses and an(* D Metallica as being in this categ- Guit^ ory. When you start splitting 131 hairs over whether a group is ^ed thrash, speed metal or funk- entitled punk rockabilly, you're just mvente spitting in the wind. hard-pr In this column, I have made a ^ep alb completely subjective list of picked what I feel are some of the best P\ albums in hard rock history. For "Jeta* ' the sake of fairness, I have lim ited each band's contribution on but |t"( the list to only one album. timeles: Appetite for Destruction: a8_ Guns N' Roses, America's fa- ?ow vorite heroin addicts, kick butt Comn on their full-length debut. Every ^d "G song on this album is fantastic. nam( The Gunners were one of the k?u( few bands in the Eighties to de s Sc have a truly original rock the*r s sound, and nothing proves it 1 better than this LP. gningy Diary of a Madman: Ozzie dalist b Osbourne and phenom guitarist usu Randy Rhodes team up for an they p incredible album. Despite Oz- l*1 8 zie's bad press, he really has an *ous accessible, commercial sound hear a on his solo stuff (not so when ence. 01 he was with Sabbath, see below). Rhodes died in a plane 38 crash, but this recording shows JJ03 his amazing guitar talent. As for ^eppeli Ozzie Osbourne, he is one of a b the best, most distinctive rock "upPet vocalists ever. 0 the great t Dirty Deeds Done Cheap: and "I Australia's AC/DC has a hell of Not B< lot of good songs, but few con- guitar j sistently good albums. I almost is rippe said Back in Black, but that's Zep. too obvious. Anyway, I like or- Pari iginal lead singer Bon Scott's plays d voice better, and he sings on This g Dirty Deeds. This is a very creepy, good album, although the lyrics to this are a little silly (particularly on time. " "Big Balls"). and "In Electric: Hie Cult came out finest n of nowhere with this awesome bum t*11 release. Produced by rap pro- Sere; ducer Rick Rubin, the band Judas F rocks like they never have be- this LI fore or since. Most of the songs You'v are basic two- and three-chord Coming progressions, but they all sound ^eve *5 original and all rock loud. commit this rect Fair Warning: Van Halen at Wroi their hardest. No crummy notmea "Dancing in the Street" covers, but it is this is pure hard rock. Eddie lented j Van Halen created some great Vancou guitar riffs, particularly "Un- some g chained" and "So This Is cially " Love?" Sammy Hagar can't and Bor Think of the six women Now m less ~ ~ " o which one will be rapi One out of six college women will be sexually assaulte* the odds of it happening. Simply by trying to avoid si friends vulnerable. For starters, follow security measu doors open. Walk with a friend after dark. And be a' I problem on college campuses. With many of these rapes Then share these facts with six of your friend. And ma another statistic. 2 film m VZf i] graHwn Vgr fcJ flfe* or, Christian Slater and ients list )avid Lee Roth's vocals Diver: Ronnie James rmer frontman for Black h) and company put r an amazingly consislection of songs, includainbow in the Dark," ht Through The Heart" on't Talk to Strangers." work by Vivian Camper of Whitesnake. Zeppelin: The selfdebut of the group that :d heavy metal. I was essed to only name one um fen: this list, so I just the first one. )elin is hardly just a jand, as any listener of of the Holy can attest, ;ir first album includes 5 hard rock classics such azed and Confused," Many More Times," mniratinn Rr<?alrrtr*vun" ood Times, Bad Times" 3 a few. ler Than Love: Seat>undgarden released this, econd full album, in lie band has a full, rich sound with odd, existen,rrics that are a cut above al dumb cliches. In fact, arody the sterotypical ong-lyrics with the hilartig Dumb Sex." You can Zep and Sabbath influi the band, but they are >ff artists. ter of Puppets: Metalis me in the same fix as n: it is hard to pick only urn of theirs for this list. s is very representative band's sound, and has unes like "Sanitarium" he Thing That Should Metallica's layered sound is incredible, and d off constantly, just like moid: Black Sabbath eath metal at its finest, roup is so eerie and you won't want to listen album alone the first War Pigs," "Paranoid" >n Man" are some of the letal tunes. I like this almensely. aming for Vengeance: tiest is at their best on \ The title track and e Got Another Thing are my favorites. Beor not, I didn't want to suicide after listening to >rd over and over, tg: No Means No may n much to most readers, die name of a very tagarage-rock band from tver. This album has reat songs on it, espeTKo Trn?<.^ a "r? iv/YTVi ttJiu xvagi ies." closest to you. * ) sd this year. i this year. But you can change tuations that leave you or your ires. 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